The mantle of Mary has our back

The Catholic Spirit compares a scene from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers to the biblical imagery of the Virgin Mary. The author notes that in the novel, a rider in white arrives at sunrise to surprise and defeat the enemy at Helm's Deep.

This literary moment is linked to the Book of Revelation, which describes a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars. The commentary identifies this figure as Mary, acting as a cosmic queen and mother to Christians. The passage in Revelation also describes the devil's resentment toward this figure, leading to a conflict where St. Michael and his angels cast the evil one from heaven.